So here is what I want you to do, God helping you. Take your everyday, ordinary life_ your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life - and place it before God as an offering.
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Romans 12:1-2. The Message.
· Your quality of life is determined by the quality of your thoughts (beliefs). “You are what you think”. God’s Word corrects people’s mental distortions. A habit of reflecting on God’s Word, renews and re-orders a person’s thinking patterns.
· Your thoughts (beliefs) determine your emotions. What happens to you, or the circumstances that you face on a moment by moment basis, do not create your emotions. Your emotions are the result of how you interpret every thing that happens to you.
Healthy thinking habits generate healthy feelings and desires, even when you face difficulties and disappointment. You may not feel happy, or get what you want, but you will feel God’s joy, presence, peace, and hope.
· Finally, your emotions determine your actions and behaviors. Self-centered choices and behaviors are the result of distorted thinking and feelings of pride, fear, anger, guilt, shame….Christ-centered choices and behaviors are the result of renewed thinking (beliefs), of choosing to let Christ affect your mind, heart, will, and behavior.
You create your life experiences and ultimately your destiny!
Choose to let Jesus change you by changing the way you think!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Letters From Your Father God - Press Release
Letters From My Father
Christ-centered counseling takes an epistolary format
LONGWOOD, FL— What if you could correspond with God on a daily basis? What if your mailbox was a portal to the Almighty? Maya Graves’s narrative, Letters from Your Father God ($12.99, paperback, 1-60034-254-X), is the epistolary equivalent of receiving a letter from God. The 10 letters contained within reflect principles, guidelines, thoughts, and feelings that God wants to express to burdened seekers—letters that challenge us to develop spiritual understanding and Christian maturity.
Says Graves, “This book leads people to implement biblical knowledge in specific life situations and conflicts. Readers will see that every circumstance in their lives has a spiritual meaning. They may come to the realization that psychological conflicts are related to spiritual needs. People who connect biblical truth to daily living find peace, power, and purpose in their life.”
The material found in the accompanying workbook portion of Letter from Your Father God has already been tested in Graves’s private Christian psychotherapy practice—with much success. The individuals, couples, and families that come to her seeking solutions to their psychological problems and spiritual needs experience emotional and spiritual healing and growth as they complete the carefully designed practical assignments. “Behavioral modification has provided them with partial help,” says Graves. “Christ-centered counseling, which my book promotes, directs people to long-lasting solutions for their emotional and spiritual conflicts.”
Maya Graves is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Houston. She and her husband, Tom, have been married for 27 years. They have one married daughter.
Xulon Press is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 2,700 titles published to date. Retailers may order Letters from Your Father God through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors.
Christ-centered counseling takes an epistolary format
LONGWOOD, FL— What if you could correspond with God on a daily basis? What if your mailbox was a portal to the Almighty? Maya Graves’s narrative, Letters from Your Father God ($12.99, paperback, 1-60034-254-X), is the epistolary equivalent of receiving a letter from God. The 10 letters contained within reflect principles, guidelines, thoughts, and feelings that God wants to express to burdened seekers—letters that challenge us to develop spiritual understanding and Christian maturity.
Says Graves, “This book leads people to implement biblical knowledge in specific life situations and conflicts. Readers will see that every circumstance in their lives has a spiritual meaning. They may come to the realization that psychological conflicts are related to spiritual needs. People who connect biblical truth to daily living find peace, power, and purpose in their life.”
The material found in the accompanying workbook portion of Letter from Your Father God has already been tested in Graves’s private Christian psychotherapy practice—with much success. The individuals, couples, and families that come to her seeking solutions to their psychological problems and spiritual needs experience emotional and spiritual healing and growth as they complete the carefully designed practical assignments. “Behavioral modification has provided them with partial help,” says Graves. “Christ-centered counseling, which my book promotes, directs people to long-lasting solutions for their emotional and spiritual conflicts.”
Maya Graves is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Houston. She and her husband, Tom, have been married for 27 years. They have one married daughter.
Xulon Press is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 2,700 titles published to date. Retailers may order Letters from Your Father God through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors.
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